Banishment

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of banishing or compelling a citizen to leave his country or place of residence by political or judicial authority.
  • noun. The state of being banished; enforced absence; expulsion; exile, in either a legal or a general sense: as, banishment from thy presence is worse than death.
  • noun. The act of driving away or dispelling: as, the banishment of care from the mind.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.
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  • noun. The act of banishing.
  • noun. The state of being banished, exile.
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  • noun. rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone
  • noun. the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
    • Word Usage
    "Third offense calls for banishment from the island forever."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    exclusion  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    annihilation  beggary  celibacy  condemnation  confiscation  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ban  blackball  blackballing  blacklist  boycott  
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